Why std.stdio and not std.io ?

[Stewart Gordon]

Lucas Goss wrote:
> Tom wrote:
>> Maybe it sounds as a stupid question but I still wonder why to mimic C 
>> include
>> name for standard input/output.
> 
> I wonder the same. I also wonder why not...
> 
> std.unicode - instead of std.uni
> std.c.ctype - instead of std.ctype
> std.conversion - instead of std.conv
> std.c.stream? - instead of std.cstream
> std.memorymappedfile - instead of std.mmfile
> ...more?
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Because std.c.* is reserved for translations of C API headers.

Stewart.

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